Has Senior Adventures

About Dinata

Welcome to my blog! Make yourself comfortable and stay a while.

I am retired and living and traveling in a motorhome. I just recently started posting my daily logs on a blog, but have been writing and sending them out almost daily via email since 2001. I retired and my husband Andy and I moved onto our boat. I summarized it thus: We sold the house, sold the cars, sold the kids, the dog died, and we moved on the boat and went cruising. It was difficult to get an internet connection while traveling back then, but I could write the logs off line, paste them in an email, and they would go out whenever I got connected. Later, I was able to connect with my cell phone, but only after nine o’clock when it didn’t cost me minutes. Now I have a hot spot and can get on line most of the time.

I blog my “senior adventures”. They currently include our RV travels and what I see, do, and learn on them. I wear my camera like an article of clothing and take plenty of pictures. (Yes, it is true. I took over a thousand pictures in one day when we visited Mount Blanc in Chamonix, France.) It began because I wanted to remember it all. When the day comes that we are confined to our rocking chairs, we will be able to reminisce with the logs and pictures. Then I realized that I could also share my adventures with friends and family and take them along with me. When you find something good, you want to tell everyone about it.

We are not doing any real adventure travel to far flung, exotic places, but I have discovered that there is something of interest to be seen and learned about everywhere we go.

I have been reading your blogs regularly and especially like the pictures and descriptions of Saudi Arabia. I’m sorry it was not a happier experience for you. Now I am really enjoying your fall pictures from the northwest.

There won’t be as many during the winter. I’ll probably post about once a week because we are not moving around.. When we begin our summer trip at the end of April, I’ll post every day (that I can). I’ll stay tuned to your blog too; I love the food.
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Love what you’re doing with your blog and the exciting, traveling retired life you’re living. That’s always what I thought I would do when I reached this age, but unfortunately, I am crippled from Lupus and RA. I will enjoy reading about your trips and seeing your pictures as if I were there with you … from one writer to another … thanks for the memories!

Thank you. You hit on my purpose precisely. I want to share the journey with whomever wants to read along for the ride. The annual six-month trip won’t start again until next April, but I will post weekly while we are in the Florida keys for the winter.

Nice meeting you really love this especially the bit when you said “We sold the house, sold the cars, sold the kids, the dog died, and we moved on the boat and went cruising.” I laughed so hard at sold the kids

Thank you and be sure that I will always check out your blog whenever I get notified of a new post. It becomes obsessive after a while, doesn’t it? We are not traveling during the winter, but I will still post something every week, or more if we do something interesting. Please stay tuned.

Hello, Dinata. Having been following you for a few weeks now, I’m a little late in reading your About page. I’m just about to nominate you for a blog award and wanted to check whether or not you were ‘award free’. I’ll go ahead with the nomination – no obligation to accept, of course, even if you are not award free. Millie

I have never met (on line or off) a person who regretted living in a motorhome. It is a freeing lifestyle. We travel and are outdoors a lot. The best thing for me is being able to park in the grandson’s driveway a month every summer!

Hi Dinata. Thanks for following my blog. I will do the same, it will be fun keeping in touch and following your adventures. I agree you don’t have to travel to exotic places to discover things. I’ve lived in Greece all my life and, since acquiring two foreign daughters in law, it’s amazing how much we’ve discovered and explored quite close to home!

Oh, I hope to learn and see a lot about Greece from you. I actually have a second generation Greek daughter-in-law. Her parents, along with other family, came to the US and now run a seafood restaurant in Ocean City, Maryland. So I have been to a Greek Orthodox church for the wedding (some years back now).

I also have exotic daughters in law. One is half German half Honduran, the other half French half Swedish. In our family who,is Greek through and through, that is indeed exotic! My husband jokes the grandchildren have Inca and Viking blood in them!

Hi, I just met you on the via The Book Blogger’s Christmas party and I’m delighted to have the opportunity to read your blog. I love your philosophy and like you am busy storing memories ready for when we run out of money or health. Merry Christmas! X

What a lovely space you have created to share your adventures. ‘Wearing your camera as an article of clothing’ is just an excellent way to be fully attired. All my best to you and look forward to following along on your journey.

HI Dinata,
I know Sally, Faraday’s Castle, LeggyPeggy, and Cindy Knoke.
In response to your post, I travel often too and can relate to the troubles of not having internet on vacation. The reason is that we cruise often and even when we have internet, it is very costly on the cruise ship.
I am glad you liked my Blogger Meet and Greet. Thanks for visiting my site this weekend. Now that you are blogging, if you ever could use a few tips, I’d love for you to subscribe. I offer free incentives for subscribing where you would get to meet even more bloggers than at my party!
Janice

I agree you don’t need go to exotic places to find adventures. I love the happy vibes on your blog, your enthusiasm for things around you. I’ll be following your blog and look forward to reading more. Thanks for dropping by my blog too at runawaypalate.com

Dinata, I discovered today that something with WP has been terribly wrong. Although I signed up to follow you back in November, I haven’t gotten notices of your posts for a long time. All my settings are okay. I don’t know what the problem is, so I unfollowed and then re-followed you. I hope that fixes the problem! Sometimes WP can get a little wonky. Anyway, it looks like I have some catching up to do!

I haven’t been writing much lately, or reading other blogs because I have been working on the book. Things are not progressing as I had hoped. Maybe I’ll post some pictures now. I take them when we go out for our walks, but they are all still on the camera. That’s it. I’m going to do it right now.

I just wish she would call when she says she will. If she can’t, she should make a commitment. I’m beginning to think I made a mistake choosing Hugo House. You shouldn’t take on work that you can’t perform in a timely manner.

Hi Dinata, how wonderful. You’re doing what my husband and I have said we would like to do once the kids are all grown up and gone, the dog is gone and we’re tired of looking after the house. Sailing, traveling, writing, taking photos … it sounds wonderful. Lovely to meet you, thanks for following me so I could meet you! I look forward to checking out more of your blog. Cheers from Australia.

What a delight to find you! Thank you for visiting UpTheMountainAndDownAgain and giving me your address in the process. I look forward to reading you, particularly since I hope to hit the road come Spring.

We will be hitting the road again at the end of April. Two months in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park again before the cross-country road trip to visit family and take in some more sights – and parks.

I try to read all the blogs I follow, so I only follow when they look interesting, as yours does. Besides, it is a fun way to keep up with someone forty years younger than myself! p.s. My grandsons live near Milwaukee and we went to the children’s museum in Madison last summer. I had fun.

You and your husband are brave to sell everything and set yourselves free. Husband and I are retired but have chosen to retire in place but we enjoy the freedom of not working and time to travel if we choose. I will enjoy following your adventures! Cheers!

Hi Dinata thank you so much for visiting my Blog and for deciding to Follow! I am happy that you found it interesting! I Follow you too. I like your beautiful photos and I will visit again! Have a great week! Carolina

Wonderful to meet you – interesting that I found you today from Lynn over at lynz real cooking. My spouse and I are in the process of selling our home with plans to travel the US in an RV fulltime. I actually just posted this information today to my readers. Happy Day to you! 🙂

Nice to meet you too Gary. I’ve added you to my email distribution list so you can find out what it is like to volunteer as camp hosts in a national park. You’ll also learn how often we are getting the RV repaired!

Hi Dinata! Thank you for following me and I am happy to now be following your very interesting blog. You take wonderful photographs and your posts are entertaining and well-written. I am also envious that you and your husband are having such great traveling adventures! I have done a wee bit of traveling in my younger days and I hope to be able to do more in the future but for now I will get to enjoy your fun vicariously. I was sorry to read that you had that nasty infection and I hope you are now much, much better. I’m so happy to have made your acquaintance, sweetie! Have more good times!

OMG Dinata I’m so sorry about your illness. I didnt think much about it until I read about it on Wiki. It sounds truly awful you poor thing. And to think you are missing your trip. Yes by all means keep me posted. My plans are also in jeopardy after 3/4 years of preparation. Fingers crossed at the moment. I hope somehow you have a good weekend Dinata

I had taken antibiotics after shoulder surgery in February. Then I got a urinary tract infection in March and again in April. I took 10 days of antibiotics with each. The problem is that the antibiotics kill off the good bacteria in the gut, which allows the bad bacteria, Clostridium Difficile, to proliferate. Antibiotics are the number one cause of getting a C-diff infection. C-diff is everywhere, but antibiotic use makes you vulnerable to it. Of course, I don’t know what alternative there is when you need an antibiotic. From what I have read on line, this is a growing and serious problem as C-diff is becoming more resistant to drugs and more virulent. And, it can be deadly.

Hiya Dinata. Phew, I always knew about the overuse of antibiotics and that its best to let your body take care of things but that’s just put things on another level for me. So are you sending your summer on the boat then? Certainly a great space to promote healing.

No boat. We sold the boat and moved into a motorhome. We’ve been land cruising for six months each summer for the past ten years and staying on the boat for six months in the winter until we moved to the motorhome four years ago. Right now we are parked in my grandson’s driveway. Two little boys, aged two and four, can do miracles for what ails grandma.

Dint– fun to find your roving blog!! I just retire this year– and hope to have some adventures ahead. And I totally get what you mean about taking too many(?) photos because I want to remember every detail!

You can’t take too many. You can’t take enough pictures. I look back at some of our travels and wish I had taken more. We have been retired and traveling since 2001. I write something most nights but,when I read it later, I wish I wrote more (people’s names, where we ate, what we ate, the weather, whatever to bring back the memory in as much detail as possible. So, I’m looking forward to following your adventure tales too!

Agree- I can get into extreme picture taking mode on vacation! So cool that you’ve been blogging since 2001! I mostly post recipe posts– but do travels and family too and I like to look bad like it was my online scrapbook. Hope you’re feeling better again soon! take care…